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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1885
Page
1
A damaged OCR item presents poetic phrases about treasured possession and domestic love. The text mentions a child husband and household in a flowery, loving context, with ornate diction and unclear punctuation. The source is a magazine page fragment with imagery of beauty and kinship.
Neville Wilmot shadows Davison at Thornwood after Sir Gilbert warns of a suspected guest. Davison hints at a secret tale from twenty years past involving an eccentric uncle and a crabbed manuscript, as tensions rise between family, guests, and hidden motives.
Neville learns a tale of deception surrounding an old manuscript and a missing fortune. Davison reveals that Neville’s father, once poor, impersonated Neverton’s heir to gain Lamston property, and money vanished from the manuscript room. Neville demands proof and warns Davison to stay silent.
In a sunlit October morning the Wilmot household weighs the tremor of yesterday’s events. Neville, torn between duty to his father and a desire for Hebe, plans to confront Davison while doubting his future with Hebe if Davison’s story is true. Hebe narrows eyes, sensing a chill behind the outward calm as Neville defers a business matter to stay.
A Philadelphia telegram reports eighteen inmates perished in a blaze that destroyed the Blockley Almshouse insane department. Firefighters and attendants rushed through smoke to pull out dozens, with about twenty-eight on the third floor and twenty in a large common room remaining unrescued. Seventy five are listed missing, many believed to have escaped into the city as flames wrapped the wing and illuminated the streets.
A sewer cleaning crew on Kinzie near Union suffocated as a blast of sewer gas surged in. Victims named include Michael Laskey Joseph Gull James Grady Daniel Mason and Matthew Bam. Bodies lay in saloon No 116 North Union as rescuers fought to pull others from the five foot diameter conduit located about 500 feet between manholes.
A young woman Miss Cox near Onkone east of Romney suffered abdominal neuralgia. After morphine doses she was buried alive in a coffin. Dogs howled at the graveyard prompting an opening of the grave where the girl revived, shocking the community.
A Fall River mill company plans to move its entire plant except the mill building to Mexico. The Queque Chain Mill Corporation would erect a new mill there and install present machinery to begin full manufacture of certain printed goods, adding printing mills as needed.
China warns of potential indemnity claim amid ongoing disputes with the United States. The report highlights bilateral tensions, economic standoffs, and possible implications for policy and trade relations between the two nations.
Gibraltar dispatch mentions troops sailing to reinforce Gen Wolseley in the Sondon. London dispatch reports India raising a 3000 man contingent for the Suakin-Berber expedition under Gen Hudson. Expected arrival several days before guards. Entire expedition force due at Suakin within three weeks. Surgeons volunteer for the Sudan and medical corps, with many female nurses carrying medals from prior campaigns.
The Aboo Klea engagement added materially to our Egyptian losses. The record shows officers killed and wounded in equal measure, with 65 men killed to 85 wounded, and officers suffering a two to one ratio of wounded to killed overall.
An escaped lunatic from Seneca Falls New York was captured in St Louis after declaring plans to kill or stab President Cleveland. He entered the Health Commissioner’s office posing as Dr William Ray of New York and discussed asylum treatment before revealing his commission by divine power to target the president. Police recovered a weapon from his coat.
In Eureka California on February 7 a riot between Chinese residents led to a fatal shooting when a stay bullet struck David Kendall, a city council member. A mass meeting denounced Chinese acts and ordered their departure, with groups corralling residents to a warehouse before the steamer sailings. A second meeting empowered a committee to locate future evacuations in Eureka.
Dispatch from New Glasgow reports a gas explosion at Yale Colliery in Westville last night. Twenty-two men were underground. thirteen died and the rest suffered injuries. The blast occurred 2000 feet below the surface amid a heavy feeder and disrupted by faulty ventilation. Names of the deceased include Cameron, McBeth, Campbell, Kennedy, McKinnon, Ryan, Foley, Fraser, McNeil, Haggart, McLean, Robertson, Love, Guthro, McDonald, and Lamont.
New York dispatch reports Russell Sage faced a charge in the Tombs Police Court after broker John Purdy filed a complaint for obtaining money under false pretenses. Sage and Purdy arranged leases and purchases of railroad stock, with bids at 40 and 47 dollars per share plus a deferred sale until Oct 23 1881. Sage allegedly sold the stock earlier on Oct 24 1881 when it was worth 54 dollars a share.
The Land Office issued a rule restricting proofs in homestead and preemption to be made before district land office registers rather than notaries or court clerks, causing hardship in Dakota where settlers live far from offices. Delegate Raymond has appealed the ruling, a full statement of facts has been sent to the Interior Secretary, and a reversal is confidently expected.
Ex prosecuting attorney James Caplis files suit in Wayne Circuit Court against the Detroit Free Press for libel seeking 25000 dollars in damages. The complaint cites a Detroit Free Press charge that Caplis unlawfully drew 2500 dollars from the county treasury under color of preparing a bill to revise the Police Court act and that he neglected official duties, necessitating a third party to perform the work.
J Labarre, a Minnesota man, was killed at Howe and Labarre's mower and feeder works in Owatonna. While adjusting a belt, he was drawn into a shaft, suffered fatal internal injuries, and died about an hour later after being taken home. His father found him in the shop shortly after 1 pm.
Miss Minnie Chrisman of Marshall was engaged to two men and kept both men in the dark about her plans. Ehrman set a wedding date, but Goulding learned of the match and persuaded her to wed Monday afternoon, beating the rival by forty eight hours. The bride was noted as bright and attractive, yet unsure until the ceremony.
The Cleveland Tennessee special reports the disinterment of F G Gibbs, who died in 1877 at age 75. His widow died weeks earlier, and his coffin was opened to rebury him beside her. The beard had grown nine inches and his head wore a ten inch full head of jet black hair, though in life his hair and beard were snow white.
Lydia Harries daughter of John Harries eloped with James Mumma. Both families well known in Ohio. Harries is wealthy and a society leader. Mumma is a lawyer of moderate means and good character. Father indignant, refuses reconciliation. Attentions had for ten years with parental consent withheld.
In Springfield 111 tonight Bert Snow skated two miles to set a fast time on the rink. He challenged Daniel O Leary in a race between a two mile skate and a 1 1/4 mile walk. The contest was drawn as judges disagreed and the event is set for tomorrow night.
Martell a laborer from Astoria visits the Bureau of Vital Statistics to search records for his ancestors. He asserts a direct claim on the Dorian estate at Montreal valued in the millions, claiming direct descent and a prima facie case.
A Lawrence Kansas special reports the severest winter in ten years. Cattle on the range die as feed scarce. Hog losses in eastern Kansas set new records. Temperatures plunged to 14 degrees below zero hindering grain markets. Farmers complain bitterly of losses and hardship.
Canton dispatch reports laborers discovered a tramp named August Lextine frozen to death on a pile of ties along the Valley road while going to work. He slept there last night after building a fire that went out. He was brought to the station and died at the poor house this afternoon.
A southbound locomotive hit a hand-car carrying Mrs. Lynch and section men seven miles south of Mount Gilead. Lynch suffered devastating injuries and is expected to die. Sidney teacher Thomas Arbogart is jailed for brutal caning of a pup, after a resistance during a whipping. He waives examination and is bound over to the Common Pleas Court.
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